NEW JERSEY DAILY BRIEFING

2 Shot in a Murder-Suicide

By TERRY PRISTIN

Published: December 13, 1996

MONTCLAIR—
A 45-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were found fatally shot in the man's bed yesterday afternoon in what police called a murder-suicide by the man, Miguel Montoya. The woman, Nhora Gomez of Bloomfield, had been missing since Wednesday, when she did not come home from work, said Police Chief Thomas J. Russo. Mrs. Gomez's husband told police that he went looking for his wife yesterday at Mr. Montoya's house on Grove Street, but could not get in. Another resident of the building saw the bodies and called police, who found a .32-caliber revolver in Mr. Montoya's hand.